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I am merely a bit player in your stories,as you are merely a bit player in mine.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I forgive myself completelyfor having created stories of suffering.I forgive myself for allmy angers, resentments, jealousies,and all the other emotions of suffering.I have unbounded compassion for myselfat all times and under all circumstances.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The "stories" we choose to tell about our pastare never what a video camera would have recorded.We can tell a sad story or a happy story,and neither story is eithermore accurate or "better" than the other story.The difference is that one story causes us to suffer,while the other brings us joy. I choose joy.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.- Terry Pratchett

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money.Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.- Martin Cruz Smith

Some stories are true that never happened.- Elie Wiesel

I confessed recently to an old friend,"I realized I was looking at you,in your visit, through old glasses.Speaking old words.Telling old stories.I realize that in my life I've made so manyphysical changes and I need to give my spirit time to catch up."Time for my spirit to look at my friendthrough the new glasses of current life experiences.Old friends are precious.They become even more treasured when they are wrappedin the currentness of life experiencesand not relegated to the past in which they once lived.- Mary Anne Radmacher

If you have an emotional reaction in the presence of someone,your heart is telling you that you havenot resolved your issues with them.In other words, you have not truly forgiven that person.All of this begs the question, how do we forgive?First, cease lying to yourself and stop telling yourself storiesabout why you behave the way you do.Stop blaming your behavior on other peopleand take responsibility for your emotional reactions.If you could forgive all the people in your lifewho have hurt or wounded youit would be possible to be in control of your behaviorinstead of being in reaction to other people all of the time.Imagine living life without experiencinga constant emotional roller-coaster of pain, anger, and jealousy!That would be bliss!- Sheri Rosenthal

You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'.These aren't stories.They're joke books.The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.- Brian P. Cleary

I started writing stories as a child.- Danielle Steel

Animation is the one type of movie that really doesplay for the entire audience.Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.- John Lasseter

In writing a series of stories about the same characters,plan the whole series in advance in some detail,to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.- L. Sprague de Camp

But again, I put in my time with Marvel and DC so therewas that period of my life of trying to learn how todraw and tell stories in a proper fashion.- Todd McFarlane

Science fiction is no more written for scientists thatghost stories are written for ghosts.- Brian Aldiss

We all know that Social Security is one of this country'sgreatest success stories in the 20th century.- Mitch McConnell

Yeah I'm telling real stories, but if you pick up adocumentary on strippers,you're going to want to see some stripping,so we definitely got that in there.- Method Man

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient.Besides, life has so much humor.- Manuel Puig

For English assignments I was constantly coming upwith these strange adventure stories...But I actually wanted to be an artist,or maybe work in the comic book industry.- Paul Kane

Fiction came quite a while later.I began with short stories and fiction for children.- Helen Dunmore

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell mykind of stories without making them both sad and funny.- Todd Solondz

Like life itself my stories have no point and get absolutely nowhere.- Thorne Smith

New York in a way functions as another character within the story,as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.- Radha Mitchell

And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I -but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17.So there wasn't much time.- Joan Collins

I've been taking longer to write stories lately.- Greg Egan

David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley,who edited the Best American Short Stories series.She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology.- Terry Southern

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative:the result of hearing and reading lots of stories aboutinteresting people and places.- Louise Brown

There's a joy in writing short stories,a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.- Tobias Wolff

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions,are not set down without authority.- Marie de France

It's precisely the disappointing stories,which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning,that sound true to life.- Max Frisch

In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy,so by writing these types of stories,I have to include tragedy.- Nicholas Sparks

There have been many times when we have not run storiesbecause we cannot get it verified.- Mary Hart

I feel that these stories are being written to articulatecertain confusions and disappointments,and I do mean to shake up the reader,and I do hope they're on target.- Ann Beattie

I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year.I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring.We'll see.- Patton Oswalt

My stories run up and bite me on the leg -I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite.When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.- Ray Bradbury

I don't think you can really make television basedon what you think audiences want.You can only make stories that you like,because you have to watch it so many times.- Dick Wolf

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later.I published about 80 stories for nothing.I spent on literature.- Naguib Mahfouz

True stories, autobiographical stories,like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account,before the birth of some of the people in the tale.- Harold Brodkey

When I write an original story I write about peopleI know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with.I don't write stories about the nineteenth century.- Satyajit Ray

You start as an audience member and create a world you're interested in,and then you move into the telling of those stories,bringing what has interested you as an audience member.- Neil LaBute

Some of the best news stories start in gossip.Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning.I had heard it months before I printed it.- Matt Drudge

A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told,and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.- Anderson Cooper

Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his playsand his short stories is about people,family, man's relationship with his God,the breaking down of tradition.- Norman Jewison

The American formula things are out there but theydon't have any stories to tell -we have all the stories to tell -but they're all formula.- Yahoo Serious

I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character,but they lay those stories out ahead of time,so they had some idea where they wanted it to go.- David Selby

An autobiography is not about pictures;it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as muchtruth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.- Boris Becker

Many great horror stories are period pieces and Englishactors have a facility for historic characters.- Robert Englund

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened whenyou see so many stories that are disturbing.Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makesyou hardened to some of it.- Linda Vester

There are no war stories.I ended up a bombardier, but I never got overseas.And it wasn't because I was playing baseball either.It was just a series of things that went on.- Bobby Thomson

How many times can you put together 26 different stories without running out?- Rene Auberjonois

I want to present interesting stories that don't qualifythemselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.- Ajay Naidu

I like good stories above all else...and kickin' art really goes the final stretch to ensure a comic is good.- Robert Kirkman

We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tellsAmerican stories but telling Australian stories isthe greatest thing you can do.- Yahoo Serious

I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time.- Fred Saberhagen

If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories,I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.- Ann Beattie

We always see the innocent victims in the stories,and I am a little bored with that.I am much more interested in the price paid by the people who can fly.- Bill Williams

We tell stories.We talk about statistics.And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat:the long distance dedication.- Casey Kasem

To us, basing stories on christianity is the same asbasing stories on Roman mythology,Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies.- Richard King

Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.- Larry King

I tend to lean toward strong female stories.I want to make things that don't already exist out there.- Natalie Portman

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.- Orson Scott Card

Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalistand Jay has many great stories.- Carrie Fisher

You've just got to focus on excellence and try notto be distracted by the news and the rumors and theabsurdities of the stories that were coming out.- James Daly

I have some good stories yet to tell.- Fred Saberhagen

I was hired to do as many Boy Commando,Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could.- Gil Kane